Daily Briefing, April 18

Chronicle Staff and News Services

Updated 4:18 pm, Monday, April 17, 2017

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In this photo provided by Animal Adventure Park in Binghamton, N.Y., a giraffe named April kisses her new calf on Saturday, April 15, 2017. Her birth was broadcast to an online audience with more than a million viewers. (Animal Adventure Park via AP) less

In this photo provided by Animal Adventure Park in Binghamton, N.Y., a giraffe named April kisses her new calf on Saturday, April 15, 2017. Her birth was broadcast to an online audience with more than a million ... more

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Number of the day

100 million

That’s how many customers Netflix is expected to top this weekend as it continues its rapid growth, especially outside the U.S. In an earnings report Monday, Netflix said new releases were light in the first quarter, allowing it to be the Los Gatos company’s most profitable ever, but that profit in the second quarter will be lighter because it is releasing new seasons of “House of Cards,” “Orange Is the New Black” and “Master of None,” as well as three big-budget movies.

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time to put off your taxes

Even though the deadline for filing income taxes is Tuesday instead of the customary April 15, people have been procrastinating even more than last year, when the Internal Revenue Service collected 29 million individual returns between April 8 and April 22. As of April 7 this year, almost 4 million fewer people had filed than at the same point a year ago.

Other number of the day

7.6 billion

That’s how many minutes of live watch time that the long-awaited arrival of April the giraffe’s baby in upstate New York has had since February, making Animal Adventure Park the second most live-viewed channel in YouTube’s history. It is behind only League of Legends eSports, which has been around since 2012.

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